It's About To Get All Bacchanal Up In Here At Caesars

Caesars Palace's new buffet will make its debut next month after closing for renovation back in January. And, while we can all breathe easy that we won't need to say, 'hey, let's eat at, erm, EAT' (at least on The Strip, anyway), Caesars has chosen to bring back a name that most will likely butcher or just skip entirely, reducing it to 'hey, wanna eat at Caesars' buffet?'

Bacchanal Buffet, who's tagline you can see at top and which is probably recognized by old school Vegas visitors as a reference to the iconic Bacchanal Room, will be run by chefs. (breathes another sigh of relief.) From a preview video released on YouTube yesterday (shown below), those chefs will be chopping, seasoning, and crafting all kinds of goody goodness for us to eat. In fact, more than 500 different dishes (500?!?) will be prepared for guests throughout the day:

Each will have an action station, plated dishes and "minis"
Majority of cooking will be executed in front of guests by interactive chef
Abundant Food Choices  more than 500 food items in total

Dinner  More than 300 items
Breakfast  More than 95 items
Pastry  An additional 115 pastry items available during dinner
Bread  More than 20 different varieties of fresh-baked bread and rolls
Soups  More than 10 daily soups, many of which will rotate daily
Cheeses  7 farmstead American cheeses available year-round with 3 changing seasonally

Caesars touts the transformation of its buffet as coming with a $17 million dollar price tag. It'll cost you $19.99 for breakfast, $24.99 for lunch and $39.99 for a seafood dinner. If you choose to Buffet of Buffets it, expect to pay an additional $10 on top of the regular BoB charge of $44.99 for Total Rewards members or $49.99 for those who choose not to sign up for Caesars' player club card.

Bacchanal has an anticipated opening of September 10.

(And, for those who want to know how to actually pronounce bacchanal, it's bah-kuh-nahl -- meaning an occasion of drunken revelry; orgy. Oooh, it's that kind of party buffet!)